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“My body works, I'm healthy, and today I actually noticed instead of taking it for granted.”
Health is the one wealth you only feel when it's gone — and today, rare among days, you felt it while you still had it. The body is on loan and the lease is finite. Gratitude for a working body is not soft; it's accurate. Use the health you have now, fully, while it's yours to use.
Your Practice
- Do one physical thing today purely because you can — walk far, lift, swim, dance.
- Thank the body part you usually only notice when it hurts.
- Stop deferring the physical things you want to do 'when I'm in better shape.' Start now.
- Treat the body as borrowed, not owned. Maintain it like something you'll return with care.
The Architects
“Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes; but chiefly death: and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion, Chapter 21 (Elizabeth Carter translation; Wikisource)